Black & White: Silver Efx Pro™ Software Plug-In

Black & White Photos processed with NIK Software Silver Efx Pro software plugin.
If you don't own it, you can get a free trial that works as a plug in for Apple Aperture, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop software:
http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php
Once you try it, you may want to keep it around for this B&W series.

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Announced:

Monday, 9th January, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Monday, 16th January, 2012 –
Sunday, 22nd January, 2012
(GMT)

Voting:

Monday, 23rd January, 2012 –
Sunday, 29th January, 2012
(GMT)

Processing rules:

Use the SilverFX Pro plug-in to post process any photo — without a cat — that you believe will give you a winning result.

You will only be cheating yourself if you do not use or try this software.

Capture date rules:

Images must be shot after the announcement date of the challenge.

Additional rules:

Extra Credit: Voters. add at least half a star if the entrant adds comments on some of the techniques used to post-process the entry.

Subtract Credit: Subtract credit of the entry is simply a desaturated color photo.